ok so i pulled the valve cover off for the first time since i finally got my car back from the garage its been awhile since it died this is the first neon ive done a head gasket on is this normal looking like this??? if the head gasket is blown or is it something worse? nothin is broken just very nasty from the oil water mixing and sorry its probally getting annoying by now me posting about it im just tryen to to this figured out so i can get it fixed before the winter heres a pic of what it looks like

 

thats what happens when a headgasket goes really bad and the fluid sits in the head...
the coolant/water will rust all the bare metal in there..

whenever a headgasket goes out really bad, its always a good idea the flush all the fluid out of the engine if its going to be sitting for a while....

 

damn, yeah thats not normal. kinda lookes like some of the intake lobe are worn down on the #2 cylinder.

 

i cleaned out the head as best i could for now i have to drain the little bit of oil left im never using castrol syntec again lol ****s like water yeah im gunna drain its as soon as i can idk how to clean all that **** out of the inside of the motor i had it fire right out only for a second to see if anything was broken sounded nice and smooth befor it blew so im sure everything inside is fine just probally a mess from all the oil and water mixing i also had a quart of lucas in there so that didnt help much lol im hopen to get it back on the road very soon oh just remeber the motor only has 18k original miles.

 

just clean all the sluge out, hopefully nothing was damaged due to that lack of lube. But yeah thats what happens when oil mixes with water.

 

yeah i have it all nice and clean hopen to get it finished soon it would be a shame if the motor was blown with only 18k on it i got really lucky finding that motor

 

i highly doubt theres only 18k on that motor. more like 118k from what it looks like.

 

if those cams have heavy rust deposits on the lobes then you may want to get some new cams....
you dont really wanna use sand paper or a wire brush on them because it will leave very small grooves on the surface.....if you decide that you dont wanna get new cams, then try some very very fine sand paper and maybe some steel wool

 

the car was wrecked with 14k on it and sat for a few years it was a 99 now has 18k on the motr from driving around all original 18567 miles on the motor now. it had the original oil filter still on it and all the stickers on the block and head and even the heat shield on the exhaust

and all the rust it wiped off when i cleaned all that gunk off the lobes are all smooth and clean again so its good to go

 

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If you are talking about the synthetic blend, then you were wasting your money.